In A GHOST STORY we follow an old school ghost of the white-sheet-and-cut-out-holes-for-eyes variety, as it haunts the house of the woman it loved when it was alive. Not a horror movie, but a poetic meditation on time, space and love, the film languishes in its long takes and leisurely pace – and nowhere more so than in the scene where Rooney Mara delivers the most remarkable cinematic encounter with a pie since Jason Biggs got busy with it in AMERICAN PIE. It is no wonder David Lowery’s new movie is one of the most critically acclaimed American movies of 2017.